From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:00 AM
To: alt.atheism.moderated
Subject: Re: Are irrational numbers supernatural?


Jim Humphries <jim@nospamma.humph65.fsworld.co.uk> wrote 

> > > No, because the statement is analytic: it helps define
> > > propositional meaninglessness.
> > >
> The statement is not analytic- it is synthetic.
> [..] I suggest you look this up].

I did, as I told you last week in the "Brian Holtz on Religion" thread:

http://www.xrefer.com/entry/551265:
  [..] held that an analytic statement is one which is true or false
  purely in virtue of the meanings of the words used to make it and
  the grammatical rules governing their combination. This definition
  has the advantages that it does not have application only to
  statements of subject-predicate form and avoids either reliance
  on the obscure notion of 'containment'

My statement help defines what is to be considered meaningless,
and thus is analytic.

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